Improvement in wardrobe-bedsteads



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CHARLES PABST, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WARDROBE-BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 189,776, dated April 17, 1877 application filed l December lil. 1876.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, GHARLEs PABsT, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wardrobe-Bedsteads, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in

which- Figure 1 represents a front view when the wardrobe is closed. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section ofthe same -in the plane a: y

Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is 'a horizontal section of the same. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section when the bedstead is turned out ready for use. Fig. 5 is a sectional plan or top view V of the same.

ymore fully set forth.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a wardrobe, which is divided by a vertical partition, a, into two compartments, B C, each of which is provided with its separate door B0 C". The compartment G forms a receptacle for garments or other articles, and beneath it is a drawer7 D.

The compartment B contains a bedstead, E, which is composed of a main section, F,

section, G, which are connected to each other by hinge-joints b, so that when the bedstead is turned out, as

shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the secondary section can be unfolded, and thereby a double bed is produced.

The main section F is connected by hinges c to a vertical support, H, Figs. 2 and 4, which is secured in the compartment B, near vits front, and to the outer edges of both sections are secured -legs I J, which swing on pivots d e, so that they can be turned out to form supports for the outer ends of their respective sections when the bedstead is unfolded. A latch, f, Fig. 5, serves to connect the two sections, so as to render the bedstead rigid when the same is unfolded. Each section is provided with a mattress and pillow, which may be of any desirable construction, and which can be firmly secured in position, or made detachable.

The main section F is provided with an extension, K, which contains one or more compartments for the reception of a weight, L, that serves to balance the weight of the bedstead, and to facilitate the operation of turning said bedstead in or out.

In front ofthe support H is a filling-piece, M, which swings on hinges g, and is connected to the main section F by a strap, h. When the bedstead is turned in this filling-piece is drawn up by the strap h to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and a finished appearance is imparted to the wardrobe. When the bedstead is turned out for use the filling-piece assumes the position shown in Fig. 4.

By these means a warbrobe is obtained, one compartment of which forms a receptacle for garments or other articles, while its other compartment contains a double bed, which can be readily and conveniently turned out and unfolded for use, or folded up and inclosed in the wardrobe when it is not to be used.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

`As a new article of manufacture a wardrobe-bedstead, consisting of the partitioned caseA and the longitudinallyffolding bedstead F Gr, provided with folding supports I, filling-piece M, and weighted end L, adapted to fold withi'n the compartment B, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

UHAS. PABS'I. [L. 8.] Witnesses:

J oHN URIAN, Jos. W. MARTIN. 

